I’m the same, I’ve been in extreme pain before and just lived with it, but discomfort drives me up the wall. I had an impinged nerve in my neck and it took me months to see a doctor, who was shocked that I hadn’t come screaming in on day one. Meanwhile a humid day brings me down like a sack of dirt.
I don’t get it.
Pain management definitely differs from person to person. It’s clearly varying within just yourself from one type of pain to another. I’ve experienced differences between pains as well.
On the other hand, I perceive I'm much more sensitive to light and temperature. Indeed I literally can't hold her coffee cups, drink hot drinks and soup, or hold microwaved meals because of pain overload which she can without thought. And I assure you this isn't because of conditional exposure or anything on her behalf to harsh conditions, she's a relatively delicate creature.
Growing up, I often wondered whether there's just a greater deal of variation in pain and sensory perception in the population than generally accepted. I remember watching people jump into cold pools during swimming carnivals, and I had to seriously wonder whether those people were experiencing what I was experiencing, because, while I'm being a bit melodramatic here, you might as well ask me to consider putting my hand in a fire, and some of these people I swear were amidst revelling in it...